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Michiganders are sharing concerns about the use of private data by the federal task force run by Elon Musk.
The only problem is that no one seems to know where exactly it is.
Elon Musk told federal workers Monday evening that they had "another chance" to justify their work or lose their jobs. The original deadline passed later on Monday.
The newly-formed Fork Off Coalition, composed of recently laid off government employees, represents an alphabet soup of agencies with various levels of tenure.
Some federal agencies, including the State and Defense Departments, told their employees not to respond to an email asking for a list of tasks they completed.
The fired head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said he sees the attack against the agency as "suspicious."
Federal workers received an email on Saturday instructing them to document five things they accomplished in the past week, and Elon Musk said those who don't reply would risk losing their jobs.
One Ann Arbor employee found out she was being fired after being locked out of her government accounts at that time. Now she says she's expecting an offer to return to the VA Hospital, but it will be in a different role.
The employees who will be affected — in a single division of the IRS — are expected to be notified Thursday that they've been fired.
The initial accounting by DOGE of its estimated savings was overstated by billions of dollars, a review by CBS News found.
USDA said it's trying to rescind the firings this weekend of several employees who had worked on the bird flu.
Some Democratic lawmakers are raising concerns about the security of taxpayer data as Musk's cost-cutting task force moves to the IRS.
Trump in a statement said the two will work to "dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies."
Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head an effort, dubbed DOGE, to reduce wasteful federal spending. Here's what it's about.
